Archive for April 2010
Dalek Poster Will Ex-Ter-Mi-Nate All Other Posters
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BBC has made a printable pdf version of this Dalek poster seen in the first episode of the latest Dr. Who… TV series. |
April 25th, 2010
Apple Iie Gets Twitter on 5.25-Inch Floppy
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It’s always nice to see old school technology brought back from the dead to serve some modern purpose. In this case, we’re looking at an old Apple IIe, customized to display posts from Twitter. Modder Yergacheffe had to MacGyver together a PC to Apple II interface to transfer data from… |
April 24th, 2010
Asus Eee Pad Tablet Pc Announced: Price and Release Date Speculated
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Not one to let all the other computer manufacturers have all the fun, ASUS has announced that they will be releasing their own tablet PC to compete with the iPad. The ASUS Eee Pad might look something like the decapitated head of one of their Eee netbooks (shown above), but… |
April 24th, 2010
Got Some Spare Cat5 Lying Around? Why Not Make a Self-Portrait?
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If you’ve got a bunch of spare network cable or wires lying around? Maybe you should try and make something constructive out of them, instead of letting them accumulate dust. How about a self-portrait? That’s just what Los Angeles artist Kasey McMahon did. This piece is called Connected …and it |
April 23rd, 2010
Bought the iPad, but Too Cheap to Buy a Stand?
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Despite their willingness to drop dough on bleeding-edge technology, there are some geeks out there who are frugal. They will buy a nice gadget like the iPad, but they will never buy any accessories to make using the gadget better. If you are this sort of geek and you want… |
April 23rd, 2010
Tokyoflash Supersonic: New Concept Watch Perfect for Robots
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Tokyoflash’s latest concept watch looks cool enough to be used by our robot overlords! Assuming robots wore watches, that is. The Supersonic has bold modern looks and a sleek smoked black hexagonal face. As with most Tokyoflash watches, half the fun is trying to figure out what the time is… |
April 23rd, 2010
Twitwee Twitter Clock Kills Two Birds With One Bird
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I always knew that a mod like this would pop-up: a cuckoo clock modified to display tweets, complete with a blue cuckoo. Haroon Baig calls his mod the Twitwee Clock. Based on an Arduino controller board, it displays an analog clock as well as tweets on a small touchscreen. It… |
April 23rd, 2010
It’S a-Me! Mafia!
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Mario never asks a second favor when he’s been refused the first, understood?… |
April 23rd, 2010
Mint Floor Cleaner: Square and Simple
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The Mint cleaner is designed to be used with reusable microfiber cloths or, if you want to waste money, Swiffer cleaning cloths. Unlike the Roomba, the Mint can only clean hard floors. I’m not sure if it can dock and recharge itself; the official website mentions no such feature. But… |
April 23rd, 2010
Nintendo Cartridge Soap: Why is My Console Foaming?
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Gamer geeks, keep yourself nice and scrubby in the shower with one of these fun soaps designed to look just like classic Nintendo console cartridges. GEEKSOAP makes these fun soap bars that look exactly like carts from the NES, N64 and Game Boy.… |
April 22nd, 2010
